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HA NOI — Representatives of the city of Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province signed a memorandum of understanding on tourism co-operation in Ha Noi on Wednesday. The MoU encourages co-operation and exchanges between travel agents of the cities of Ha Noi and Chengdu, including joint development and promotion of tours and linking of tourism websites. Sichuan is the largest province in China with 88 million people, of whom 13 million live in the province's capital city. The city has an annual per-capita income of over US$5,000. The expanded Ha Noi has nearly 1,300 trade villages, including 285 traditional craft villages, to attract tourists, according to Ha Noi People's Committee vice chairwoman Ngo Thi Thanh Hang, and the city was planning to hold an exhibition in Chengdu this year to launch the co-operation programme. British Council teaches festival organisation skills Ha Noi — The British Council is holding a training course on festival organisation and management in the … [Read more...] about Ha Noi, China’s Chengdu to co-operate on tourism

Hai Phong University in the northern port city of Hai Phong held a photo exhibition to introduce the achievements of China as well as the friendship and traditional relations between Vietnam and China.
The exhibition, which aims to celebrate the 60th anniversary of China 's National Day, features the neighbour country's landscapes, people and culture as well as the activities around the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and educational cooperation between Hai Phong University and Chinese universities.
Hai Phong University has opened a faculty to teach the Vietnamese language to foreign students, many of them Chinese.
The exhibition will last through October 1.
Earlier, the Inner Mongolia art troupe staged many cultural performances in the city during its visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the Arts Performance Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
On this occasion, a meeting was held between the Chinese Businesses Association and Hai Phong city with … [Read more...] about Photo exhibit marks China’s National Day

Famed body paint artist and photographer Craig Tracy created a stunning image of a South China Tiger in aid of Save China’s Tigers Rewilding and Reintroduction project, and to mark the onset of the Chinese Year of the Tiger, coinciding with the Valentine’s day this year. The awareness campaign has been organized by Save China’s Tigers, a charitable foundation dedicated to saving the Chinese tiger, as well the entire eco-system in which it presides as the King of Beasts. “I initially wanted to call for volunteer models to come forward and have their body painted into tigers to produce a 2010 calendar along with real tiger images. But upon seeing Craig’s breathtaking work in a local newspaper, I thought this was just the right artist we needed, as Craig is two artists in one - painter and photographer”, describes Save China’s Tigers founder, Li Quan of the campaign which also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the charity. “I was … [Read more...] about Body paint tiger art donated to save China’s tigers

Hai Phong University in the northern port city of Hai Phong held a photo exhibition to introduce the achievements of China as well as the friendship and traditional relations between Vietnam and China.
The exhibition, which aims to celebrate the 60th anniversary of China 's National Day, features the neighbour country's landscapes, people and culture as well as the activities around the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and educational cooperation between Hai Phong University and Chinese universities.
Hai Phong University has opened a faculty to teach the Vietnamese language to foreign students, many of them Chinese.
The exhibition will last through October 1.
Earlier, the Inner Mongolia art troupe staged many cultural performances in the city during its visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the Arts Performance Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
On this occasion, a meeting was held between the Chinese Businesses Association and Hai Phong … [Read more...] about Photo exhibition marks China’s National Day

QINGDAO, China - China's richest man, property developer Wang Jianlin, raised the curtain on a planned 50 billion yuan ($8.17 billion) "motion-picture city" which he described as the biggest-ever single investment in the movie and television industry.Dalian Wanda Group, was surrounded by Hollywood stars John Travolta, Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones on Sunday as he launched his most ambitious project yet in the picturesque coastal city of Qingdao.
When completed in 2017, the Oriental Movie Metropolis will boast 20 sound stages, including the world's first underwater studio, a massive convention and exhibition complex, a sprawling shopping mall with an indoor amusement park and seven resort hotels.
The project also will include a yacht club with 300 berths.
"The Oriental Movie Metropolis is a major step in China's strategy to become a global cultural powerhouse," Wang said.
It was not only crucial to the development of Wanda's entertainment business, he added, but … [Read more...] about That’s entertainment: Stars come out as China’s richest man announces $8 bln film park